Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations(openai.com)
222 points by sk4rekr0w 14 hours ago | 80 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Benchmarks are widely flawed and the article's critique reinforces known issues with SWE-Bench and similar evals
  • Labs and submitters game benchmarks through timeouts, harness cheating, and reward hacking
  • Rather than discarding the benchmark, the authors should have patched the messy tasks to make them usable
  • Messy, ill-specified tasks reflect real-world software work, so the complaint is unsympathetic
  • Suggests new evaluation approaches like cost-bounded benchmarks or accounting for unknown problems